Working glove



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Tmlgll. F. x. STURM WORKING GLOVE Filed Dec. 8" 1.922 2 sheeasheet 2leather, but so far as hpetented May 13, 1924.

UNITED STATES y 1,494,081 PATENT OFFICE..

FRANK X. STURM, 0F SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA..

WORKING GLOVE.

Application led December 8, 1922. Serial No. 605,552.

To all wlwm t may concern: v

Be it known that I, FRANK X. STURM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby and State of Indiana,have invented new and useful Improvements in Working Gloves, of whichthe following is a specification.

Working gloves with fingers have been made out of cloth with'the palmand the palm-side of the fingers reinforced with know, the back has beenmade out of separate finger pieces which were sewed and seamed to etherthereby requiring a great deal more o cloth for the laps at the seams,and correspondingly more labor than if the back of the gloves wereseamless. And so far as I am aware cloth working loves have not beenreinforced with or ma e of leather between the fingers. Dress gloveshave been made with leather distance pieces between the front and back,but these have required an extra gusset at each crotch, which is tooex'- pensive in the process of manufacture for working gloves.

The object of this invention is to make a workin glove with fingers andwith a seamless bac out of cloth that will require less material andless labor in its production; and a further object is to reinforce thepalm and the palm-side of the lingers, and. bel tweenv the fingers withleather to increase the durability of the glove at those places I whereit is subjected to the greater wear.

I accomplish the above, and other objects which will hereinafter appear,by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichg Fi 1 isa blank or trank of cloth from whic the body of the glove, without thecuE, is formed. Fig. 2 is a leather blank for reinforcing the palm, andfingers: Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are the leather distance p1eces or fourchettesbetween the front and back material of the fingers. Fi 6 is a cloth piece for the outside of the t umb. Fig. 7 1s a leather reinforcement forthe inner side of the thumb. Fig. 8 is a front view and Fig. 9 a backview of a finished glove for the ri ht hand.

ike characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviewsv of the drawings.

In the trank 10 shown in Fig. 1 the cloth material for the palm and backof the hand is in one-piece integrally continuous at the joined. At

little finger portions, d, d. In this form a represents the covering forthe palm-side of the index finger and a that for the back, b thecovering for the palm-side for the middle finger and b for the back, andc the palm covering for the third finger and c for the back. A cover forthe palm-side of the thumb is formed at e by cuts 'oblique toward theseam joiningV the front to the back at the index finger, the cut next tothe seam being the lon er of the two to cause the piece defined b-y tliecuts to fold up in an opposite oblique direction. This trank will make aglove for the right or left hand, according to which way it is folded,the fol-d being alon a line from a' to y. A reinforcement 11, o leatherwith fingers and thumb members corresponding in size and shape withthose of the cloth trank is placed outside on the palm of the foldedtrank 10, and its edges are sewed into the seams where the front andback of the glove are directly the other places, mainly beof thefingers, leather distance propri'ate size and shape as igs. 3 to 5inclusive are intween each pieces 14 of a illustrated in lserted andsewed into the corresponding seams, their proper locations beingindicated by the usual marginal notches, as shown in the drawings.

It will be lnoted that each of the fourchettes is widened on the lineraf-fn, which occupies the crotch portion between the fingers andprovides for the necessary fullness there, without the introduction ofextra gussets such as are required and as are used in the manufacture ofthe much higher riced dress-gloves, but which would be prohi itive incost fora cheap working-glove.

The thumb is reinforced by leather pieces of a shape illustrated inyFig. 7 which apply on the inner side of the thumb.

All of the fourchettes and the thumb re a one piece cloth back of theglove 2.0 cluding finger' pieces and adapted to be`4 including ngerpieces and adapted to be folded together on a line between the front andback of the little linger and also having l.

a thumb piece cut on lines oblique to 'the Zout# side seam ljoining thefront and back at the index finger, the cut next to the finger beingdeeper than the other to make the folded thumb piece oppositely oblique,a one- .piece leather reenforcement for the palm and palm-side of thelingers having finger and thumb pieces 'corresponding in shape size andposition with those of the palm side of the trank, connectin meansbetween the back linger-members o the trank and the front membersthereof and leatherqreenforeements, and members tov complete the thumbportion of the glove.-

l 2. A. glove comprising a one-piece cloth trank for-the .front and backof the glove in'- iaeaoxsa folded together on a line between the frontand back ofthe littlev nger, and also having a thumb piece cut on linesoblique to the `folded thumb-piece oppositely4 oblique, a

one-piece leather reenforoement for the palm and aim-side of the fingershaving finger and t umb ieces corresponding in size and the trank, andoutside thumb pieces, and leather fourchettes each in one iece' widestat the crotch connecting the ront finger members of the trank and theirleather re- .o i lposition wit those of the palmmember of

